Realizing that the Prince is in trouble, the three good fairies head to Maleficent's castle at the Forbidden Mountain. But the Prince soon finds himself up against Maleficent's army of brutes, and the power of Maleficent's evil spells - which include a thorn forest and a fight against Maleficent when she turns herself into a dragon.
Sign In. Edit Sleeping Beauty Jump to: Summaries 4 Synopsis 1. The synopsis below may give away important plot points. Getting Started Contributor Zone ». Edit page. The spell is broken and Carabosse and her attendants disappear vanquished. Their joy is complete when the Lilac Fairy arrives and gives her blessing to their happy union.
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Tom Oreb was the first Disney artist to receive the credit of "character stylist", indicating his influence on the design of the characters. Because of the artistic depth of Eyvind Earle's paintings, it was decided for the characters of to be stylized so they could appropriately match the backgrounds. While the layout artists and animators were impressed with Earle's paintings, they eventually grew depressed at working with a style that many of them regarded as "too cold, too flat, and too modernist" for a fairy tale feature.
A major problem was that the backgrounds were so detailed and busy that it was hard for the animators to make the characters stand out and read against them. Eyvind's request to have the decision in the case of character designs and their color schemes was also met with a rather negative reaction from the animators, who always had a lot of input into the design and color modeling of their characters up to this point.
On one occasion, a few of them went up to see Walt and to complain about it, but he didn't back them on this, for he wanted the visual design to carry the picture, while also claiming that the inspirational art he commissioned in the past had homogenized the animators. Tom Oreb was tasked as character stylist that would not only inhabit the style of Earle's backgrounds, but also fit with the contemporary UPA style; likewise with Earle's background styling, the animators complained that Oreb's character designs were too rigid to animate.
Unlike the most of the animators, the studio's top draftsmen, Marc Davis and Milt Kahl , embraced Eyvind Earle's sophisticated style, what led to their appointment as supervising animators of the film's leading characters, Princess Aurora and Prince Phillip. Collaborating with Davis, Tom Oreb crafted a "leading lady of elegance", influenced by the features of Audrey Hepburn , who was a new film star at the time of Sleeping Beauty' s production.
He incorporated the strong horizontal and vertical lines of the backgrounds into Aurora's design, while Marc slightly sharpened her features and clothes to blend with the settings' angular shapes, as well as added Art Nouveau and Art Deco into her hair. Quality control animator Iwao Takamoto , who also was Marc Davis' assistant during the film's production, described working with refined drawings of Aurora as a "laborious job", and ultimately limited in-betweeners such as himself to completing only seven drawings per day.
In designing Maleficent, Marc Davis experimented with flamelike shapes and patterns of triangular color. Marc Davis was also selected to supervise the design and animation of Maleficent and, by extension, her pet raven, Diablo. He decided to move on from the early suggestions for the character's design, that included more inhuman, "insect-like" elements, in favor of a more ominous figure, of whom he thought as a "giant vampire bat". Davis' primary inspiration was a religious painting from a Czechoslovakian art book he found in his home library, featuring a figure with the flamelike drapery that he thought would be great to use.
He also added the horns and material, based on the bat's wings, around Maleficent's face to achieve what he called a "devil image", while her costume was endowed with a reptilian quality, foreshadowing the dragon into which she would transform at the film's climax.
Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston , who, on contrary to Davis and Kahl, struggled the most to adapt to Earle's style, were given the task of designing and animating Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather. At first, Walt considered making the fairies identical, similarly to Huey, Dewey, and Louie , but Frank and Ollie felt that such an approach wouldn't be half as much fun, so they had to do a lot of talking to convince Walt to give the characters more distinctive looks and personalities.
Ultimately, they also managed to reach the artistic compromise with Earle: the fairies recieved the required angularity in their costumes, based on geometrical shapes, but retained a "warm, round, cuddly" feel, akin to the previous Disney characters, with their facial features. Before the animation process began, a live-action reference version was filmed with live actors in costume serving as models for the animators. This was an important requirement of Walt, who wanted the animators to make the characters "as real as possible, near flesh and blood"; however, Milt Kahl objected to this method, considering it "a crutch, a stifling of the creative effort" and claiming that "anyone worth his salt in this business ought to know how people move.
As a part of the reference, she played in a blond wig and costumes specially designed by Alice Estes at the behest of Marc Davis, then a student of the animator at Chouinard Art Institute. The only known surviving footage of Stanley as Aurora's live-action reference is a clip from the television program Disneyland , which consists of the artists sketching her dancing with the woodland animals.
Stanley also provided a reference for some scenes of Merryweather. For the final battle sequence, Kemmer was photographed on a wooden buck. In addition to the voice acting, Eleanor Audley served as a model for Maleficent; occasionally she was replaced by Jane Fowler, who also provided the reference for Queen Leah.
Smee , Don Barclay , served as a model for King Hubert. Sir Minstrel , who serves wine to the kings in the " Skumps " sequence, was modeled by Franklin Pangborn.
Its high production costs, coupled with the underperformance of much of the rest of Disney's — release slate resulted in the company posting its first annual loss in a decade for the fiscal year , and massive layoffs were done throughout the animation department. The film was met with mixed reviews from critics, often citing the film being slowly paced and having little character development.
Nevertheless, it has sustained a strong following and is today hailed as one of the best-animated films ever made, thanks to its stylized designs by painter Eyvind Earle who also was the art director for it, its lush music score, and its large-format 70 mm widescreen and stereophonic sound presentation.
Its consensus states that "This Disney dreamscape contains moments of grandeur, with its lush colors, magical air, one of the most menacing villains in the Disney canon. Like Alice in Wonderland , which was not initially successful either, the film was never re-released theatrically in Walt Disney's lifetime.
However, it had many re-releases in theaters over the decades. It was re-released theatrically in , in 70 mm 6 channel stereo, as well as in 35 mm stereo and mono , and A re-release was planned, as it was promoted on the VHS of Beauty and the Beast , but it was canceled. Once upon a time in a faraway land, a princess named Aurora was born to a Tsar and Tsarina.
A grand celebration is arranged for her christening. All the fairies of the kingdom are invited and the Fairies of Tenderness, Playfulness, Generosity, Serenity, and Courage each bestow their gifts on the princess. But before she can bestow her gift, the Fairy of Darkness appears, blazing with anger. She had been forgotten; no invitation was sent to her. She, too, has something for the baby: a curse. One day Aurora will prick her finger on a spindle and die.
The Lilac Fairy has yet to make her offering.
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